In the last decade we've had three big companies fighting with their consoles: Nintendo (Gamecube, Wii), Sony (Playstation), Microsoft (Xbox).
The last generation was won by Nintendo with its Wii, at least in terms of sellings and creativity. In terms of powerful and hardcore-gamers wishes the winner were the others which has splitted up the large people of videogamers.
Now it's time for a new generation and after the first little failure by Nintendo (the WiiU really risks to be an epic fail), we have two new consoles looming up.
Sony's Ps4 and Microsoft's X1.
Who will win? Anybody can know it now and we'll have to wait next winter for using them. What we can see now it's how even a big company as Microsoft can change its strategies.
Since their first apparition the Sony's one seemed to be closer to customers but only because the Microsoft's one seemed too much 'against the actual customers or potention ones'. For years, Microsoft had been working on a console with a lot of constrictions. You needed to be always connected on internet to use it. It was impossible to use second-hand videogames (and this would has meant no chance to sell the completed games) and other things like those.
A nightmare for customers who saw this as a gauntlet threw them up by Microsoft.
Ah, X1 costs 100$ more than Ps4.
A dotty suicide.
And here it is the amazing lesson. Customers reacted wherever on these decisions and only one week after their announcements Microsoft claims they are changing everything. No restrinction, no boundaries, no always on, yes second-hand games.
Customers-Big company: 6-0. Game, Set, Match.
Amazing.
This is one of the funny reaction on Microsoft's politics:
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